Malcolm J. Brenner
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Malcolm J. Brenner

Science Fiction & Fantasy
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I was born in 1951, at the dawn of the Space Age. My father was a Jewish radar engineer from NYC and my mother, orphaned as an eight-year-old, a nurse in the Royal Air Force (she was English). They shared an unconventional outlook and a fascination with the "orgone energy" theories of Dr. Wilhelm Reich, surely the maddest scientist of the age. Their involvement in this quasi-cult is the subject of my 2014 memoir, "Growing Up in the Orgone Box: Secrets of a Reichian Childhood." I was born in coastal New Jersey and raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia until 1967, when my parents broke up and my mother moved to Sarasota, Florida. There I completed high school and entered New College of Florida, where I tried to study communications despite a complete lack of equipment or faculty. A strange set of circumstances led to the events described in my first and best-known book, "Wet Goddess: Recollections of a Dolphin Lover," which is a fictionalized account of my 1971 love affair with a female bottlenose dolphin. It's sold more than 1,500 copies in 18 countries and has been translated into Russian! In the late 1970's I set out to make a documentary about killer whales, failed miserably, and landed in Seattle where I settled down, opened a photo lab, married a local woman and had a kid. That marriage effectively ended in the late 1980s, and the early 1990s found me in New Mexico, where I worked for almost a decade as a daily newspaper reporter (and sometimes photographer) covering the Navajos and Zunis. While out there I married my second wife, and began the UFO research which led ultimately to my third book, the 2016 space "romance" novel "Mel-Khyor: An Interstellar Affair." My second marriage ended about the same time as the new millennium began. I returned to Florida in 2002 because I missed the water. Now retired, I promote my books, market my photos and shoot the occasional freelance job. Preliminary work has started on my next book, "Wings of Stone: A White Witch Among the Navajo." This will be an overview of my near-decade reporting from Navajo Country, consisting of highlighted stories, colorful characters, dodgy situations and my observations on Navajo life, language and culture.
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